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Heroku Deployment

Getting started on Heroku with Node.js

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that developers use to deploy, manage and scale modern apps.

Heroku Dev Center Getting-Started

Above is a link to the Heroku Dev Center website with a step-by-step guide to getting started on Heroku with Node.js where a series of pages guides a user through a tutorial for deploying Node.js apps.

The tutorial guides the user through a step by step process. The first four steps look something like this:

  1. Set up
    • This section explains how to make sure all of the required components are installed on the user’s computer including:
      • heroku
      • node
      • npm
      • git Also, that new enough versions are installed.
  2. Prepare the app
    • This section helps the user prepare a sample application to be deployed to Heroku. The user clones a functioning Git repository to acquire a working sample application.
  3. Deploy the app
    • The user is instructed to create an app on Heroku and also a git remote associated with their local git repository.
      • the app is randomly named unless a parameter is given to specify one
      • the code is then deployed by push it to heroku
      • the user ensures that an instance of the app is running and then visits the website
  4. View logs
    • The user then learns how to view information about their running app and how to view message logs.

Node.js

Node.js is an open source cross-platform runtime environment. It is written in JavaScript and allows us to build server-side and networking applications on any platform.

We can create a local server relatively easily. But we can use the Heroku cloud application platform to turn our server into world-wide server.

See Lenny Witman’s Node.js For Beginners… website for a step-by-step guide to deploying a blog to Heroku.

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